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Home My WebLink About09-30-2015 Minutes Work Sessionf �t! L L E T I I 12 wr 13 I 0 wr ' 5'ttrdent Success bj,, DesrgI7 " 3497 North Ammon Road, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 83401 < (208) 525-4400 ' Fax (208) 529-0104 www.d93schools.org Dr. Charles J. Shackett, Superintendent Marjean McConnell, Deputy Superintendent Scott Woolstenhulme, Assistant Superintendent Work Session of the Board of Trustees September 30, 2015 11:30 AM Hillcrest High School Student Council I. Call to Order Chairman McBride called the meeting to order ad 1:59 a.m. II. Roll Call Chairman Brian McBride Present Vice Chairman Paul Jenkins Present Treasurer Amy Landers Present Trustee Jeff Bird Present Trustee Greg Calder Present III. Welcome Visitors and Delegations Others in attendance were Deputy Superintendent Marjean McConnell, Assistant Superintendent Scott Woolstenhulme, Director of Human Resources Dr. Shalene French, Chief Financial/Operations Officer April Burton, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Michaelena Hix, Director of Safe Schools, Maintenance & Operations John Pymm, Community Relations and Communications Phil Campbell, Hillcrest High School Principal Doug McLaren, Hillcrest High School Vice Principal Josh Haggerty, Hillcrest High School Vice Principal Corey Telford, Hillcrest High School Student Council Advisor Shauna Crabtree, Heidi Southwick and Board Clerk Mary Mortenson. Hillcrest Hiah School Student Council Senior Class Activity Leader Erin Astel, Cheer Captain Ali VanOrden, Freshman Class Secretary Jenna Astel, Sophomore Class Secretary Isaac Child, Freshman Class Activity Leader Hallie Tueller, Senior at Large Jeremy Schleinel, Freshman at Large Kaylee Kress, Freshman President Oakley Hussey, Sophomore at Large Taelor Anderson, Senior Class President Marisa Hoover, Senior Class Vice President Blaine Nyberg, Knightline Captain Shaelyn Lowe, Junior Vice President Bowen Oswald, Senior at Large Zach Bryan, Student Body Activity Leader Emma Schweinsberg, Student Body Publicity Coordinator Quinn Driggs, Senior at Large Laurana Wheeler, Senior at Large McKell Calder, Student Body Vice President Gavin Slater, Student Body President Nic Southwick, Male Activity Leader Tanner Reilly, Junior Activity Leader Michael Patterson, Freshman Vice President Andrew Pickett, Business Manager Chandler Serr, Junior at Large Anna Punt, Junior at Large Piper Mortimer, Senior at Large McKenzie Ward, Student Body Historian Jake Pickett, Sophomore Vice President Olivia Warner, and Sophomore Class President Olivia Steadman. Nic Southwick, Student Body President, spoke about the Summer Retreat held each year. This is a time for the Student Council members to build unity and fellowship with each other. This year they have worked on their Mission Statement and set goals for this school year. The student leaders where given quotes to discuss and collaborated ideas for personal and school goals. Their Mission Statement reads as follows: HHS Student Council 2015-2016 Mission Statement: As representatives and friends of the individuals of Hillcrest High School, we will work to form an ultimate alliance with each other. We will achieve this unity by valuing and serving everyone genuinely, and in the process, help ourselves and others reach our true potential. We will make the most of our time to better create opportunities, making everlasting memories. *omnia erant in haec propediem --As written and voted on by HHS Student Council at 2015 Retreat These are some of the activities that Hillcrest High School Student Council members have been involved so far this year: • July 4'h Parade in Idaho Falls: This year included building a float and giving the Student Council members a chance to work toward a common goal —this is what Student Council is all about! • Freshman Dav: Information was given out to the new Freshmen class about dress codes and were they given planners. The Freshmen class had school tours, learned a few cheers, and watched a video that was made over the summer. This day gives the Freshmen a little knowledge of the school in a fun way and helps them be better acquainted with the school and as a class, Board of Trustees ,; Brian McBride ; Paul Jenkins Amy Landers Jeff Bird i` Greg Calder Senior Sunrise: On the first day of school all the Seniors met at 6:00a.m. for breakfast, music and creating everlasting memories, The Seniors created a time capsule to be opened at graduation and they all signed the Senior flag. Homecomina: Although Homecoming was a bit early this year, everyone pulled together and had fun! There were spirit dress up days, lunchtime activities, and the Homecoming assembly was great! The parade included 28 clubs with floats and the royalty in sport cars. PowderPuff games brought the Juniors and Seniors closer together with 100 girls participating. The Homecoming football game was a fun time to hang out with old friends and make new friends. Due to the warm weather, the Homecoming dance was held outside at Tautphaus Park. Everyone was able to ride the Ferris wheel. The Leoion: The Legion was organized to unify the student section at all the game events; not just football, but all sporting events. There will be a theme for every game, such as Hawaiian or camouflage. There will be face painting, new cheers, shirts and fun activities to makes the games more fun. The Legion is for everyone creating an awesome student section and school energy, Nic Southwick shared the Vision for the Student Council and the students of Hillcrest High School. The Vision is for everyone, creating lasting friendships and a fun school environment — Carpe Diem — to make our time at Hillcrest High School a time to remember. • New Student Lunch 0 Lunch Activities • Sadies 0 Friday Jam • Back to the Future Day 0 LARPing (Life Active Role Play) • Civil War 0 Mr./Miss Hillcrest • Quidditch games 0 Brawley Ball • Adopt a Family 0 Prom Principal Doug McLaren welcomed the School Board to Hillcrest High School and expressed his appreciation for the efforts of Student Council Advisor Mrs. Crabtree and the great student leadership of Hillcrest High School, Comments from the Board: • Chairman McBride recognized and appreciates Nic for his great school spirit and leadership, helping others to reach their potential and encouraging an element of unity. There are 1,450 students at Hillcrest High School with 30 Student Council leaders of school who represents energy, excitement and school spirit. • Trustee Greg Calder observed the goodness of this Student Council. Sometimes we get caught up on the big issues and need to focus more on kids and education. Mr, Calder expressed his gratitude to this impressive group and their good advisors. • Trustee Jeff Bird was impressed by the presentation and the importance of helping freshmen out on the first few days of school, and Student Council's school spirit. He is expecting great things! • Vice Chairman Paul Jenkins told everyone that his daughter was in the first graduating class of Hillcrest High School. He was impressed with the Student Council's demeanor and happy smiles. He asked the group what their best memories were - football game, having an outside dance, working together, and getting things accomplished. • Treasurer Amy Landers appreciated the 2015-2016 Mission statement - We are all in this together! She thought the Friday jam was a cool idea, She was impressed by the student's awesome energy and vision. Questions from the Student Council: How will split sessions affect student athletes and student clubs? Principal McLaren explained the proposed split sessions would overlap mid-day. The early session would start near 7:OOa.m, and the late session would end approximately 5:OOp.m with each session having with approximately 700 students; therefore, the mid-day overlap would be with 1,400 students. It is like running two different schools in one school; having blended -type split session will help the school to remain as one. Clubs and sport practices need to be fine-tuned and to have faculty available. This schedule allows for families to have time together and will be easier for students, families, and community, Students will be encouraged to take more online classes. The details will be forthcoming and split sessions are projected to start in the 2017-18 school year. Mr. Woolstenhulme stated that we do not have space or power to place anymore trailers at Hillcrest. When the student population increases, the state gives us more teachers. We are literally running out of space and roaming teachers are increasing. The hallways and intersections are tight, increasing safety concerns, Without any more classrooms, and more teachers and students creates challenges and will require split sessions. This will give teachers a place to teach, and increases the safety and education for our students. Is there anything we can do as Student Council to raise awareness of the bond? Chairman McBride welcomed Heidi Southwick, representative for the Advocates for Education to share her ideas on how the students can get involved. Mrs. Southwick encouraged all the students who are of age to register and vote at the polls, She encouraged the students to get their siblings, friends, neighbors and families out to place their votes. It is a challenge to reach everyone. Their hope is get the word out about the bond to everyone in the District. Students have personal experience with overcrowding, "I can tell you what it is like in our overcrowded school," can carry more weight when it comes from someone they know, Students who support the bond can head up a committee to distribute fliers; the more information to the community the better. How are trimesters going to work? Principal McLaren stated the trimester plan is still in progress and feels it's the best way to educate students when we go to split sessions. The School Board ultimately decides on when we will go to split sessions or implement trimesters; it's the school administration's responsibility to figure out what is best for educating kids. Trimesters give better opportunities for athletics and activities. There will be six classes per trimester, sixty minutes per class and students will be able to earn eight more credits. There will be everyday math classes and everyday English classes for the 91h and 101h graders. Trimesters will not take away any opportunely for elective classes, but possibly add more. AP classes and advance classes will still need to be addressed. • How does this bond differ from the last bond? The last bond, May 2015, was for $56.1 million. November 2015 bond is for $55.3 million. The bond amount was lowered by reducing the contingency funds, and removing the lava study. The ballot will have two questions; Question #1 relates to the $55.3million bond for the high school and Question #2 will be an additional $8.2million for the auditorium and athletic stadium. Each bond will require a 213 super majority vote in order to pass. It will also shows a drop in the tax levy; $1.75 per $100K taxable property for the high school bond and an additional $1.17 for the auditorium and athletic stadium bond, totaling $2.92 tax levy increase per $100K taxable property. This bond tax levy is about $2.00 less per month than the last bond. It's a better deal! Also, all the monies from this current bond will go to the high school and not for other projects in the District. • How will the boundaries change? Currently we have 2,700 high school students and with the housing construction going on in the north part of the District, will increase our student count to 4,000. Someday, Bonneville High School might be larger than Hillcrest. Boundaries will change as the area grows and the new high school is built. The enrollment at Rocky Mountain Middle School is currently higher than Sandcreek Middle School due to the increase of building on the north side of the District. • What about Idaho Falls and Skyline high schools? These schools are in a different district and would require a consolidation of districts which would confuse the tax structure. Studies have shown that this process is not very economical and will not likely to happen. • Question for Mr. Bird — I had heard you are against the school bond. Is that correct? Mr. Bird stated he voted for the November 2015 bond. What were your reasoning for not supporting the bond in the past? Mr. Bird explained he did not support the first bond due to financial reasons and favored a junior high school over a high school. He stated that now is the time to come together and to compromise. We have to have a building at this point and we all gave a little here and a little there in order to support this November bond. • Where will the new high school be built? Near the corner of 1St Street and 45th East, on the NE corner, just south of the Iona Cemetery. Principal McLaren expressed appreciation to the School Board and their interest in Hillcrest High School. Board Trainina A. 2015-2016 Board Goals Board goals were postponed until further notice. Items of Discussions Ms. McConnell asked to discuss the school calendars for the 2016-2017 school year and including the trimester system. There will be two drafts of the calendar — one where school starts before Labor Day and one where school starts after Labor Day. Each calendar will have a week off in November and spring break in March. The past several years there has been two weeks off at Christmas/New Years and need to know if this is what the Board would wish for this next year. Short weeks often decrease attendance. Our current District calendar has a 171 instructional days and we recommend 174 instructional days with the trimester system, with each segment at 58 days. We have removed a workday and a professional day before school and one in October. We will lose two professional days for our teachers, but gain three instructional days for our students. It will add three more days to our classified staff, such as bus drivers, food service workers, and aides. January 2, 2017 is a Federal holiday and cannot be removed from the calendar. By adding the second week at the winter break would move the end of the school year further into June. Putting the calendar proposals out for a community survey is a good idea again this year. It will determine when students and educators wish to return before or after Labor Day. High schools prefer to start early due to sports schedules. Early release days are best on Wednesdays; there is better school attendance. Early release is used for PLC time, Professional Learning Community; a time for teachers to collaborate, and develop early intervention strategies for their students. Mr. Woolstenhulme asked to discuss the Bond Fact sheet. The first community meeting will be held Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at Tiebreaker Elementary starting at 7:OOp.m. There have been questions about the auditorium and athletic stadium and how it will be shared between the high schools. The Home and Visitor sections will be equal in size. The building of a high school is being proposed mainly due to capacity; our current high schools are over capacity and the community continues to grow. The sample ballot shows two separate questions. The election office will tally each question. This data will be useful. To prepare this bond fact sheet for our community meetings, please have all feedback to Mr. Woolstenhulme by 9:OOa.m. on Monday, October 5, 2015. Call for Aaenda Items for lJocomino Meetinas A. Regular Meeting - Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - District Board Room - 7:OOp.m. B. Work Session Lincoln High School Student Council - Wednesday, October 21, 2015 -11:30 a.m. C. Special Meeting - Technical Careers & Bonneville Online Student Councils - Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - District Board Room -11:30 a.m. D. Regular Meeting - Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - District Board Room - 7:00 p.m. E. ISBA Annual Convention - November 11.13, 2015 - Coeur d'Alene, ID F. Work Session - Ammon Elementary - Wednesday, November 18, 2015 -11:30 a.m. Adiournment MOTION: Amy Landers motioned to adjourn the meeting. Greg Calder seconded. All in favor, motion carried. Chairman McBride adjourned the meeting at 1:30p.m. APPROVED Chairman ATTESTE\DM b Clerk Date: �� l Vote Both Sides OFFICIAL ELECTION BALLOT Consolidated Election Bonneville County November 03. 2015 Precinct SCI=tC; L. B15TRIC`F` NO:' 93 BONDIIEC` ION „ (Cis Wnued) BAND (ELECT-IC?N, SPECIAL i OBLIGATION BOND ELECTION SCHOOLJOINT STATED, O Shall the Board of Trustees of Joint School District No. 93, Bonneville and Bingham Counties, State of Idaho (the "Board"), be authorized to issue general obligation school bonds of said District, in one or more series, in the principal amount not to exceed $55,300,000 for the purpose of financing the costs of acquisition, construction, furnishing and equipping of a new high school, Including all relevant lighting, heating, ventilation and sanitation facilities and appliances necessary to maintain and operate the foregoing building and facilities, such series of bonds to become due in such installments as may be fixed by the Board, the final installment of each series to fall due not later than seventeen and one-half (17.5) years from the date of issuance of the series of bonds, all as provided In the Bond Election Resolution adopted by the Board on September 14, 2015? The following information is required by Section 34-439, Idaho Code: The project to be financed by the sale of the proposed bonds is the costs of acquisition, construction, furnishing and equipping of a new high school, including all relevant lighting, heating, ventilation and sanitation facilities and appliances necessary to maintain and operate the foregoing building and facilities. The date of the District's special general obligation bond election is November 3, 2015. The principal amount of the proposed bonds to be issued is $55,300,000 to be repaid not later than seventeen and one-half (17.5) years from the date of issuance thereof. The interest rate anticipated on the proposed bond issue, based upon current market rates, is three and thirty five -hundredths percent (3.35%) per annum. The total amount to be repaid over the life of the bonds, based on the anticipated interest rate, is $61,864,000 consisting of $55,300,000 in principal and $22,030,000 of interest, totaling $77,330,000, less $15,466,000 in estimated bond levy equalization payments. As of November 3, 2015, the total existing bonded indebtedness of the District, including interest accrued, is $50,748,472. IN FAVOR OF issuing bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $55,300,000 AGAINST issuing bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $55,300,000 Question No. 2: Auditorium and Athletic Stadium Shall the Board of Trustees of Joint School District No, 93, Bonneville and Bingham Counties, State of Idaho (the "Board"), be authorized to issue general obligation school bonds of said District, in one or more series, in the principal amount not to exceed $8,200,000 for the purpose of financing the costs of acquisition, construction, furnishing and equipping, in conjunction with a new high school if approved by the electors of the District under Question No. 1 above, of an auditorium and an athletic stadium, including all relevant lighting, heating, ventilation and sanitation facilities and appliances necessary to maintain and operate the foregoing building and facilities, such series of bonds to become due in such installments as may be fixed by the Board, the final installment of each series to fall due not later than seventeen and one-half (17.5) years from the date of issuance of the series of bonds, all as provided in the Bond Election Resolution adopted by the Board on September 14, 2015? The following information is required by Section 34-439, Idaho Code: The project to be financed by the sale of the proposed bonds is the costs of acquisition, construction, furnishing and equipping, in conjunction with a new high school if approved by the electors of the District under Question No. 1 above, of an auditorium and an athletic stadium, including all relevant lighting, heating, ventilation and sanitation facilities and appliances necessary to maintain and operate the foregoing building and facilities. The date of the District's special general obligation bond election is November 3, 2015. The principal amount of the proposed bonds to be issued is $8,200,000 to be repaid not later than seventeen and one-half (17.5) years from the date of issuance thereof. The interest rate anticipated on the proposed bond issue, based upon current market rates, is three and thirty five -hundredths percent (3,35%) per annum. The total amount to be repaid over the life of the bonds, based on the anticipated interest rate, is $9,008,000 consisting of $8,200,000 in principal and $3,060,000 of interest, totaling $11,260,000, less $2,252,000 in estimated bond levy equalization payments. As of November 3, 2015, the total existing bonded indebtedness of the District, including interest accrued, is $50,748,472. IN FAVOR OF issuing bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $8,200,000 AGAINST issuing bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $8,200,000 �qK MM0 ►,7NtffL"4a 9lM 131 Vote Both Sides